Irresponsibility behind the wheel: a bus driver was filmed while driving with a child on his legs

A new case of recklessness at the wheel was known through social networks. In the last few hours, images showing a bus line 343 driving with a minor sitting on his legs. A passenger who was traveling in that unit captured the infraction that the driver was committing when he was driving through the town of Ciudadela, in the Buenos Aires district of Tres de Febrero, and the video caused outrage among users.

Upon noticing the infraction that the bus driver was committing, the witness took her cell phone and pointed the camera at the driver’s seat. Undeterred, the driver continued his journey in broad daylight but never imagined that he would be recorded by a passenger.

Sources from the National Road Safety Agency (ANSV) consulted by infobae They said that they are trying to identify the offender to notify him of the corresponding sanction.

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These types of situations have become commonplace in recent weeks. Without going any further, the riccheri highway recently was the scene of another worrying case of recklessness at the wheel, because the images captured by a witness show a child driving on top of the adult in charge and in broad daylight, without noticing the danger of the action when other vehicles were also circulating on the track. Finally, the protagonist was harshly sanctioned by the ANSV authorities.

In the video in question, you can see a man with short hair and a beard, who was wearing a white tank top, together with a minor who seemed to be sitting on his legs while taking the wheel of the car. The boy barely got to see the road and I wasn’t wearing a seatbelttwo other irresponsibilities.

“We saw the little boy driving, I lowered the window to tell him something and he didn’t give me a ball,” said the witness who captured the video from his car, in dialogue with the news channel TN. According to his testimony, the sequence began in waist path, at the height of the Buenos Aires town of Lomas de zamora. At that moment, the makeshift cameraman tried to communicate with the man driving a black BMW 320 car, but never received a response.

Since the man was unfazed by his warnings, the witness decided to notify the authorities about what was happening. “That’s when I called 911, but just when he was about to cross the Ricchieri toll he got off the highway and I lost sight of him when he continued on General Paz avenue,” the man explained.

Taking note of what happened, the ANSV communicated driver’s license suspension for the man who broke the driving law with his reprehensible attitude. “This succession of events in which parents put girls behind the wheel has to make us all react. From the ANSV we apply the corresponding suspension. But it is necessary that the mothers do not remain passive when their partners do this. They must not allow it. It’s not a rite of passage or a thing for men, it’s crazy that can cost a boy his life. Don’t hesitate to report it,” he said. Pablo Martinez Carignanoexecutive director of the ANSV, in a statement from the agency.

As a consequence of this suspension, the driver must undergo a psychophysical reevaluation. to determine whether or not you are fit to drive a vehicle on public roads without putting other people at risk.

A situation of similar characteristics occurred on January 11: the government agency confirmed the suspension of the driver’s license to a man who went viral for images showing him giving him a driving class for his underage son in the middle of the Ezeiza – Cañuelas highwaywhile other vehicles were also circulating on the track and without noticing the danger of their actions.

“Don’t force yourself here” and “Give it stupid, take it straight”, the father is heard saying during the video that he himself recorded, while his son tried to drive the vehicle in which they were traveling. In addition, the boy is observed who can barely grip the steering wheel and reach the accelerator pedal.

Faced with this obvious recklessness, the man’s driver’s license was suspended not only for endangering the life of his own son, but also that of the other drivers who were driving on the aforementioned highway. As he is a professional driver, he also proceeded to disqualify his National Interjurisdictional Transport License (LiNTI).

Given the succession of different situations of violence in traffic, such as insults, blows, street races, going on the run and many others, the ANSV complaints channel is now available. In this way, whoever suffers or witnesses an act of road violence in any part of the country, can notify it by recording the event and sharing the material on the WhatsApp line. 011-6207-0590or through the social networks of the ANSV (@InfoSegVial).

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